Improvement in fruit-driers



W. VOGEL.A

Fruit Drer.

Patented June 28. 1864.

N. Pinus, Plwxmhogmplw. wnsmngton, tzA C.

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novel way "within, a ease ,containin .and with but very little labor a understand andfconstrn will proceed todescribe it Vthefront of the stove B' doors, G, which .extend An and theyv h U NITED STATESv WILLIAM voenL, or

IMPROVEMENT CHELSEA, MICHIGAN.

IN FRUIT-Denies.

.Specification forming part ot'` Letters P atcnt No. 4.3,354,-'da-ted June 2S, 1 364.

To lall whom/ it m'dy concern:

Be 'it'known that I, WILLIAM VOGEL, of Chelsea, in the countyof 'Washtenaw and State of Michigan, 4have invented "a new and mproved Device for Drying Fruit; andl do hereby declare that the following'is a full, clear, and exact description" of the same, reference b einghad to the accompanying drawings, making a part'of this specification, in

W hich- 4Figure l' Vis a vertical section of my invention, taken in the )line n: m, Fig. 2;v Fig. 2, a

vertical section of the same, taken in the line vSimilar lettersof reference indicate thc same parts.

This invention. `consists in arranging in a. a series of shelves; or drawers g a stove or heater, and having thela-tter. covered by plate and the case provided with aventilator, all being arf ranged .inl such a. manner-'that the heat is made to pass all `around Vthe shelves and drawers and upward throughthe centers of the sa1ne,'whe r'eb5Y Vthe fruit mav be dried ver): expeditiously and in a perfect manner,

par-tof the attendant.

To enable those skilled-.iii'vthe' art to fully ct my invention, I

A representsa case, which may be of any suitable dimensions 'and of'rectangularoi" other' form. In-the lowerpart of this case' there is placed a stov'eor heater, B, the front ofgwhich projects through the casete admit. of thcstove being supplied with fuel from the outer-y side of thecase. 'The case just above earlyor quite the whole widthot' thcc'ase, and withinthe latter there f are -placed -at tw zontal cleats, c to sustain a series of shelves or drawers, 1),'said cleatsbeing attached to uprightsb. The cleats are notiu contact-with` the .sides ot' the case, a space, c, being allowed between, (sce Fig. 2,.)rand the cleats are sufficiently shorter than the c'ase to' admit of spaces d at their ends, -be'tween'them and the front and -rcar -ot' the case. (See Fig. l.) Space.: d are also allowed'hetw'e shelves or drawers. These shelves ordrawers' have their bot-toms formed of lparallel slats,

ave perforated sides g. Atr the nd troublev on is provided with 'two o opposite sides hori.

en the several i centeroftlie--bottom of each shelf or drawer v D there is a broad slat or strip, which is pertends up through'rthe top ot' the case A, as

case A, about at its' center, there is a ventilator,\vhich may be composed of a damper or valve, G, placed at the lower part of acharn- `ber, F, having openings z' in its sidesI .or top. Directly .over the stove B there is placed a metal plate, I, having an opening, j, at its] center. This plate I is rather. wider than the stove, and it ma sides and ends. The lower part ofthe interior `of theca'se 1A may be protected by a, lsheetmetal lining, J, Vthe sides and ends ot which may be inclined. placed on the shelves or 4drawers D, a tirev closed. The heat, in will be seen, .passes-up Aall around theshelves or drawers, and also through the central openings in the. same, as indicated bythe red orsteam all passes out ofthe case through the ventilator at the top of the same. The plate I serves todeliectz'the' heat to the tral openingJ, admits of the upward current of'heated air through the openings rfof the `shelves or drawers.

from and placedin thecaseA with the greatest vprocess of drying perfectly protected from injury. A

. Having thus I claim as new, and desire to secure 'by Letters Patent, is Y `The combination 'of thc stove "B guard-plate I, sliding shelves l) D D, door U,

arranged, and operating in the manner and f forthe purposcsherein specified.

' WILLIAM VOGEL.

Witnesses:

G.. W. TURNBULL, ,lawns M. CoNGEIr B is provided with asmokepipe,-E, which 'eX' shown clearly in Figi, and in thetop of the y-.be provided wit-h inclined The fruitto be dried is kindled in -the stove B, and the doors G C.

arrows. 'Ihre/moisture sides-and ends of .the shelves o r drawers, while its cen,

The shelves or drawers may be drawn out;`

facility, and in consequence of thev fruit beingVv encompassed on'all sides by' currents of heated air thelfruit is quickly'dried, and `during the described my invention7 what .line E,

' and hot-air passagesj hl c d, 4when constructed, 

